Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Little White Dove. She dives in, too, from the opposite bank of the river, and they drown happily into the hereafter. But nothing in the 1960 morbid-ditty collection can touch Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA Victor), a best-selling ballad set in the flaming wreckage of a stock car. Tommy, the dying driver, has entered the race to win money to buy a wedding ring; he gasps out the hit tune with his dying breath and departs for heaven...
Fillies & Pirates. Galbreath plays just as hard as he works, has sunk more than $5,000,000 into his hobbies. On his big white-fenced farms outside Columbus and Lexington, Ky. (both are named Darby Dan Farm), he has assembled some of the world's finest thoroughbred breeding stock. He got Ribot, the "Horse of the Decade," from Ribot's Italian owners on a five-year lease for $1,350,000. He has already set one mark in racing: he paid the world's record price-$2,000,000-for Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, hopes Swaps...
...Biblical Stock Market. A one-day, Soviet-style marriage with a grim giantess (who loved him only for his living space) causes Lasik's political doom, and he is finally forced to take it on the lam westward, one jump ahead of the secret police. The rest of Lasik's nonstop global pratfall is something of an anticlimax-but not to Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz...
...call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking on the Sabbath, and he cannot understand the dirty songs in a nightclub because, in a phrase of desperate pathos, "in Hebrew he could only pray...
...Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas...